Speaking of browsers, Microsoft is also touting the recent news that NSS Labs has determined that Internet Explorer offers better protection against socially-engineered malware than other browsers. For more info, you can find the report here, or check out the Exploring IE blog post.

Remember Lulu? They used to allow you to host your entire music collection in the cloud and then access it from anywhere. Apple bought them, and many hoped similar functionality would then appear in iTunes. That hasn't happened, at least not yet, but now there's a new service called mspot that looks similar. They're offering Mac and Windows web clients, and an Android client, and more on the way. The bad news? The free version only supports 2 GB of storage, and there's only one paid tier, which at $3.99 supports 40 GB of storage. Still, an interesting idea.

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Like many, I was hoping to see a new Lumia flagship before the end of 2014, and while I was pleasantly surprised in some ways by both the Lumia 735 and 830, neither offers the level of performance or best-in-market camera quality I had come to expected from Microsoft/Nokia's high-end devices. So I pulled the trigger on an unlocked Windows Phone flagship that will hopefully take me through at least the first half of this year. Or until Microsoft gets off its low-end fixation and satisfies the needs of its biggest fans....More

It's been a while since the last What I Use, but there haven't been many major changes since late last year: Surface Pro 3 has become my go-to travel companion, I've added a third cellphone line for testing Windows Phone, Android and iPhone side-by-side, and have rotated through some new tablets and other devices. We've also switched from FIOS to Comcast and added to our set-top box collection....More